Bartlett Travel Awards and Scholarships

Guidelines for applicants

Bartlett Travel Awards and Scholarships Guidelines for applicants
1. Purpose
The Bartlett Faculty Travel Awards and Scholarships are available to support Bartlett
undergraduate students in undertaking independent travel to another country. These awards are
intended to fund travel which, rather than being directly related to a student's formal programme
of study or coursework, will provide the student with an opportunity to independently experience
and study a place which is new to them, and which they would not otherwise have the chance to
visit. The awards are not intended to subidise course related field trips, conferences, design
projects, dissertation/thesis research or to return to a students home country.
There are three scholarships available:
Henry Herbert Bartlett Travel Scholarship
This award is available for study and travel anywhere in the world.
Owings Travel Scholarship
This award is available for study and travel in the USA only.
Maggie Scruton Memorial Travel Scholarship
This award is available for study and travel in France only.
Students may apply for more than one of the above travel scholarships, but should only submit
one application form. More than one award may be made from each scholarship fund. The
amount available each year varies according to the return on the original scholarship donation.
However, based on recent years, the amount of individual awards normally tends to be between
250.00 and 300.00.
2. Eligibility
All undergraduate students registered on full-time undergraduate programmes of study in the
Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment are eligible to apply. Normally one award is made to a
student from each of the following programmes of the Bartlett:
The Bartlett School of Architecture:
BSc Architecture
BSc Architectural Interdisciplinary Studies
The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management:
BSc Project Management for Construction
BSc Project Management for Construction (sandwich programme)
The Bartlett School of Planning:
BSc Urban Planning, Design and Management
BSc Urban Studies
BSc Planning and Real Estate
3. The following requests will not normally be funded:
University College London, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Professional Studies Administration, 140 Hampstead
Road, London NW1 2BX. Tel:+44 (0)20 3108 9663 Email: n.siddique@ucl.ac.uk

Applications to cover cost of group Bartlett or UCL fieldtrips

Retrospective applications for expenditure on travel already incurred
Awards for group travel
Funding for overseas students wishing to travel to their country of origin
Requests to cover costs of field research directly relating to the programme of study on
which a student is enrolled, for which it is generally expected that arrangements will have
been made prior to the beginning of the student's degree programme
Funding for research directly linked to course work (e.g. a dissertation or thesis, design
process)
Funding for travel to attend conferences

4. Criteria used to assess applications

All applications will be considered by the Bartlett Travel Awards Committee Chaired by the
Faculty Tutor. The Bartlett Travel Awards Committee assesses and grades all applications on
their merits, according to the criteria set out below:

The formulation of the travel proposal

The clarity of the stated objectives of the trip
Timing of trip (most awards are made for travel in the summer vacation)
Thoroughness of proposal and budget (preference will be given to students who apply
for part, rather than the full cost, of the proposed study and travel and are able to fund
the balance).
Likelihood that the student will directly benefit from the travel, in terms of their academic,
personal and/or career development
Opportunity to investigate something or somewhere different or unique which would not
have arisen if funding was not available

5. How to apply
The deadline is Friday 24th April 2015, 17.00
Applicants should use the application form provided, available from the Bartlett website.
Applications should be typed wherever possible. All applications should be submitted by email,
electronically in MS Word format, to: Naz Siddique: n.siddique@ucl.ac.uk
Administration Professional Studies Office 2nd Floor 140 Hampstead Road NW1 2BX.
Applications should include:

Details of proposed destination, route, and specific itinerary of places it is intended to

visit
Dates of travel, length of stay
Method of transport to destination
Purpose of travel and relevance to academic, personal or career development. Please
identify reasons for choice of destination and explanation of what it is expected to
achieve.
Any equipment necessary for travel
Breakdown of all estimated expenses, justifying costs and providing quotations
(including flights, insurance, accommodation, expenses). Please be as accurate as
possible in projecting costs
An indication of how you will raise funds for the trip other than the amount provided
through the travel award, should you be successful (e.g. personal funds; other grant or
scholarship, etc.)

University College London, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Professional Studies Administration, 140 Hampstead
Road, London NW1 2BX. Tel:+44 (0)20 3108 9663 Email: n.siddique@ucl.ac.uk

6. Submitting the application

1. It is not necessary to submit these guidelines with the application.
2. Incomplete applications will be returned.
7. Claiming your award
A meeting of The Bartlett Travel Awards Committee will normally be held within 4 weeks of the
deadline for applications. You will receive email confirmation of the outcome of your application
if successful by Friday 12th June 2015. Regretfully, unsuccessful applicants will not be notified
individually. The awards applications will be processed as quickly as possible, please do not
contact the awards administrator or awards committee members if you have not received
notification, we will inform the successful applicants individually.
Cheques will be raised through the UCL registry/Finance Department. Successful applicants will
be given details of who to contact in the registry to collect a cheque for the amount of the award.
8. On returning from travel funded by a Bartlett Travel Award
Following expenditure of the travel award, individuals should submit a Bartlett Travel Award
Report 2000 4000 words (normally within 1 month of return) accounting for the expenditure
and describing the trip and its outcomes.
Original receipts / tickets should be submitted with the report as appropriate. Reports should be
submitted to Susan Ware Sub Dean and Faculty Tutor.
9. Further information
If you have any queries about the Bartlett Travel Awards please contact Susan Ware
(s.ware@ucl.ac.uk). Please note that detailed advice on individual travel proposals cannot be
given.)

University College London, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Professional Studies Administration, 140 Hampstead
Road, London NW1 2BX. Tel:+44 (0)20 3108 9663 Email: n.siddique@ucl.ac.uk